Thread: Installing AC
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Old 26-06-2009, 11:45   #9
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" However, I don't think I have the locker ventilated enough. "
I'd expect that. Window air conditioners usually blow up a storm on the outside, in order to throw off the hot air from the coils. They NEED to do that, the NEED generous airflow. Sticking the "outside" of the air conditioner in a cockpit locker just seems like a certain recipe for disaster unless you also cut a huge hole in the hull and force-ventilate the locker.
Sorry, but I'd suggest the only two reliable ways to use this are by hanging it in the companionway entrance, or above a deck hatch if you can get it to blow "down" into the hatch. Anything else is liable to damage the air conditoner, besides not working well. Like dragons and steam locomotives, they need to breath.
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